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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7063180" data-attributes="member: 53980"><p>What about the fact that there are certain powers (like Corrosive Metabolism's Breath of the Black Dragon, but there are numerous others) that don't have a point limit and therefore you can dump however many points you can generate in one go into those powers? Breath of the Black Dragon costs 5 points to activate, but also states "You can increase the damage by 1d6 per additional psi point spent on it". For example, an 11th level Mystic could dump all 9 points generated from Psionic Mastery into Breath of the Black Dragon to deal 10d6 damage (instead of the normal 6d6). At 15th level, he could spend all 11 points generated by Psionic Mastery to deal 12d6 with that power. As far as I can figure, those are your "higher level spells". 12d6 is roughly on par with a 7th level spell slot, so a 17th level psion effectively has four 7th level spell slots per day that can broken up into smaller slots.</p><p></p><p>I agree with [MENTION=6788732]cbwjm[/MENTION] that psionic mastery does not allow you to activate abilities simply by virtue of having used psionic mastery. It seems to me meant to be used before an encounter to gain a second pool of points that you can use to power higher level effects, or ignore the limitations on concentration. You probably wouldn't want to activate psionic mastery during a fight since it uses your action and therefore would make you spin your wheels for a round (unless you wanted to do something with your bonus action).</p><p></p><p>Frankly, ignoring concentration limits is significantly better than dealing extra damage unless your <em>really</em> need to nova. I'd much rather be dissecting the battlefield into bite-sized chunks using three instances of Wall of Repulsion than dealing 12d6 damage for a single round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 7063180, member: 53980"] What about the fact that there are certain powers (like Corrosive Metabolism's Breath of the Black Dragon, but there are numerous others) that don't have a point limit and therefore you can dump however many points you can generate in one go into those powers? Breath of the Black Dragon costs 5 points to activate, but also states "You can increase the damage by 1d6 per additional psi point spent on it". For example, an 11th level Mystic could dump all 9 points generated from Psionic Mastery into Breath of the Black Dragon to deal 10d6 damage (instead of the normal 6d6). At 15th level, he could spend all 11 points generated by Psionic Mastery to deal 12d6 with that power. As far as I can figure, those are your "higher level spells". 12d6 is roughly on par with a 7th level spell slot, so a 17th level psion effectively has four 7th level spell slots per day that can broken up into smaller slots. I agree with [MENTION=6788732]cbwjm[/MENTION] that psionic mastery does not allow you to activate abilities simply by virtue of having used psionic mastery. It seems to me meant to be used before an encounter to gain a second pool of points that you can use to power higher level effects, or ignore the limitations on concentration. You probably wouldn't want to activate psionic mastery during a fight since it uses your action and therefore would make you spin your wheels for a round (unless you wanted to do something with your bonus action). Frankly, ignoring concentration limits is significantly better than dealing extra damage unless your [I]really[/I] need to nova. I'd much rather be dissecting the battlefield into bite-sized chunks using three instances of Wall of Repulsion than dealing 12d6 damage for a single round. [/QUOTE]
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